397 Chairs

by Arthur C. Danto, Jennifer Levy (Photographs)

What is a chair? More than 300 designers, architects and furniture makers from around the world attempted to answer that question when they submitted chairs to an exhibition sponsored by the Architectural League of New York in 1986. This book contains photographs of the entries.

96 pages, Hardcover

First published September 8, 1988

About the author

Arthur C. Danto was Johnsonian Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Columbia University and art critic for The Nation. He was the author of numerous books, including Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life, After the End of Art, and Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective.